Why does sugar have so many carbohydrates?

Answer 1

This can easily be answered once you break it all down to a molecular level. Here are the basics...

Sugar (as we know it, like table sugar) is a disaccharide known as sucrose. This is made up of two monomers, glucose and fructose. Various other mixings of similar monomers produce other types of sugars and sweetners.

Carbohydrates are very complex, and are polysaccharides. This means that they contain long polymers, which eack contain hundreds or thousands of monomers, like glucose.

Sugars and carbohydrates to the same thing for the body, and - when broken up moleculary - are actually near identical. They both provide energy.

Really, it is not that sugars have carbohydrates, but rather that carbohydrates have sugars.

Answer 2

Because it is. Carbohydrates are chemicals with the empirical formula Cx(H2O)y. The term arose when chemists didn't know much about molecular structure. Nowadays we know that carbohydrates are not literally "hydrates of carbon", but the term is still used for compounds that have that general formula.

Answer 3

because there is no nutrition value beyond just the carbohydrate. As well the body needs to nothing to metabolize it into glucose.